Sanitary cuspidor and the like.



BJ'J? WILSON E w. B. ooUsoN. SANITARY GUSPIDOR AND THE LIKE.

g UNITED sTATEs f OFFICE.

BURTON Jf' WILSON 'AND WILLIAM B.- eoUsoN, or SANTA oRUz,. CALIFORNIA.

SANITARY oUsPIDoR AND yTITI: LIKE.y

ing rooms, hotels, public buildings, dwell-v ing houses and other places in which the spread of disease, or other inconvenient results, are liable to occur from the absence of such a device.

A further object is to provide a device of this kind, which, when not in use, can be moved out of the way and into an inconspicuous position, and, by the act of so moving it, can be automatically washed, cleaned, and treated antiseptically, so as to be in a condition fit for use when wanted.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a vertical section of our improved receptacle in its closed position; Fig. 2 is a similar view of the same in its open position.

Referring to the drawing, 1 indicates the iioor of a car, wait-ing room, hotel, or the like, and 2 a wall thereof. Adjacent to said wall is secured a casting 3, formed with a receptacle 4f for water, a guide 5 for a cylindrical valve 6, an inlet conduit 7 for connecting with a supply pipe 8, an outlet opening 9 connecting with an outlet pipe 10, and a conduit 11 communicating with a cavity 12 in said wall. Iivotally secured to said Wall, as shown at 13, is a bowl 14, the lower surface of which is plane, and is adapted in the closed position of the bowl to lie flush. with the inner side of the wall, the bowl in said closed position being received in the cavity 12, and in the open position extending out substantially horizontally therefrom, and abutting against a projection 15 of said wall into said cavity. In the valve guide can reciprocate the -cylindrical valve 6, having tapering `or conical ends 17, 18, the end 17 being adapted to be seated in a conical seat 19 adjacent to said inlet pipe,

Specification of Letters Patent.

v Application led May 7, 1912. Serial No. 695,615

Patented sept. 3, 1912.

and the end 18 being adapted to be seated in a conical seat 20 adjacent to the port 11 communicating with the cavity. From said latter eI1d.a stem 22 extends in the axial direction of the valve away from the inlet pipe and into said cavity. When said bowl is moved into its closed position the edge of the bowl impinges against the outer end of said stem andpresses the valve 6 on to the seat 19, thereby opening communication between the cavity and receptacle and allowing the water in the receptacle to flow through the conical seat 20 and on to the upper surfacev of the bowl, thus thoroughly cleansing the same, and then out by the outlet pipe. A suitable catch 23 is provided to maintain the bowl in its closed position. When the catch is withdrawn, the pressure of the supply water, pressing upon the tapering end 17 of the valve, forces the valve into the position shown in Fig. 2, in which position communication is closed between the receptacle and the cavity and the receptacleis again filled with water. In said wall is formed a cavity 24 in which is inserted a receptacle 25, which from time to time may be supplied with a medicated liquid, said receptacle having an opening in the lower portion which in the forward position of the valve registers with a recess or trough 28 formed in the upper side of said stem 22. Into this trough medicated liquid Hows from the receptacle 25, so that, when the bowl is closed and said stem is pushed inwardly, the medicated liquid is washed out of the trough by the rush of water from the receptacle through the conduit 11. Upon the opening n of the bowl the stem returns to its former position, and the trough is again refilled.

In order to insure that, when the bowl is opened, the valve is seated in its forward position before any water can escape by passing from the inlet pipe through the receptacle, there is provided in a recess 32 in the valve a coiled spring r31, which, when the valve is in its rearward position, is compressed against a stop extending into said recess.

We claim In combination, a bowl movable from a. position of use to a position of disuse and conversely, a conduit for conveying water to wash said bowl, a receptacle supplied by said set our hands in the presence of two subcondut andi adapted to be confncted witg scribing witnesses:

the bowl when in the position o isuse an f u means for permitting the escape of water BURTON J WILSON' fromA said' cond-nit'7 actuated by the,- move- Y WILLIAM B COUSON ment of the bowl from the position of use Witnesses: to that of disuse. J. H. LOGAN,

In testimony whereof we have hereunto- M. E. CoUsoN.

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